Seuss said:

Excuses, excuses, and more excuses.  If ACORN were signing up Republican voters rather than Democrat voters, you would be throwing a fit.

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CLEVELAND - A man at the center of a voter-registration scandal told The Post yesterday he was given cash and cigarettes by aggressive ACORN activists in exchange for registering an astonishing 72 times, in apparent violation of Ohio laws.

"Sometimes, they come up and bribe me with a cigarette, or they'll give me a dollar to sign up," said Freddie Johnson, 19, who filled out 72 separate voter-registration cards over an 18-month period at the behest of the left-leaning Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now.

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Left-leaning

Do you not find it disturbing that Barry has close ties to a bunch of racketeers?

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ACORN's political wing has endorsed Barack Obama for president, but Ben LaBolt, a spokesman for the Obama campaign in Ohio, said ACORN has no role in its get-out-the-vote drive.

During the primary season, however, the Obama camp paid another group, Citizen Service Inc., $832,598 for various political services, according to Federal Elections Commission filings. That group and ACORN share the same board of directors.

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It's a right Johnson will exercise. "Yeah, I've registered enough - I might as well vote."

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by aggressive ACORN activists in exchange for registering an astonishing 72 times, in apparent violation of Ohio laws.

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How is this act connected to Obama in any way? If one person in the group does something bad, the whole group is suddenly bad? Seems like it'd be real easy to just buy someone off to discredit a group in that case. Anyhow, where is this proven? Have indictments been issued yet? Will it turn out to be another false cry of voter fraud?

You guys are REALLY pulling at strings now.

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by aggressive ACORN activists in exchange for registering an astonishing 72 times, in apparent violation of Ohio laws.

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How is this act connected to Obama in any way? If one person in the group does something bad, the whole group is suddenly bad?

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supernovasky said:

Way to go, Zappa. You gave me a site that doesn't source anything to back up its claims. I can buy a domain like that and do the same thing.

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In Lake County, Indiana, ACORN submitted over 7,000 voter registration forms before the October 6 deadline. All of the first 2,100 forms processed were frauds and the remaining 5,000 have been placed aside for later processing to sort out the bogus forms from the legitimate ones. Sally LaSota, a Democratic member of the Election Board said that whoever filed the forms broke the law.

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ACORN is a huge organization. There will always be people who do bad things in all organizations. But, in this case, all you've got are allegations, no proof. Show me some court cases, they shouldn't be that hard to find.

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I also like how your site has very few examples where criminal charges actually succeeded. Remember, Acorn by LAW is required to turn in ALL registration cards. They've gotten in trouble before and had to prove that they DID raise red flags when turning it in.

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  Which is why they keep getting investigated, indicted, convicted.

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ACORN office in Vegas raided in voter-fraud probe

By OSKAR GARCIA – 2 days ago

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Nevada authorities seized records Tuesday from a group they accused of submitting fraudulent voter-registration forms — including for the starting lineup of the Dallas Cowboys.

"Tony Romo is not registered to vote in the state of Nevada, and anybody trying to pose as Terrell Owens won't be able to cast a ballot on Nov. 4," said Secretary of State Ross Miller, referring to star players on the pro football team.

State authorities raided the headquarters of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, a group that works to register low-income people.

Miller said the raid was part of a monthslong investigation, and he contended the group had submitted registration forms that used false information or duplicated information on multiple forms. He did not estimate how many.

Bertha Lewis, interim chief organizer for ACORN, said the group has been working with election officials to weed out fraudulent forms from those submitted by the canvassers it hires.

"Today's raid by the secretary of state's office is a stunt that serves no useful purpose other than to discredit our work registering Nevadans," Lewis said.

"For the past 10 months, anytime ACORN has identified a potentially fraudulent application, we turn that application in to election officials separately and offer to provide election officials with the information they would need to pursue an investigation or prosecution of the individual," Lewis said.

She said ACORN had turned in 46 problem applications submitted by 33 former employees to election officials in the Las Vegas area, where it has registered 80,000 people.

According to its national Web site, the group has registered 1.3 million people nationwide for the Nov. 4 election. It has encountered complaints of fraud stemming from registration efforts in Wisconsin, North Carolina, New Mexico, Michigan, Ohio and Missouri.

"The fact is, this is hard work and there were some people that probably sat down on a couch and filled out names out of a phone book," said Matthew Henderson, Southwest regional director for ACORN. "That's really what we're talking about here — not an attempt to steal an election."

Miller said no one had been charged or arrested in Nevada.

His spokesman, Bob Walsh, said investigators were using information from various sources, including the FBI and the U.S. attorney's office in Nevada.

"You don't have to read too many cop novels to know that sometimes people will tell you a grain of truth to try to hide the rest of the truth," Walsh said. "I'm certainly not suggesting that ACORN is that nefarious, but at the same time just because they handed over 50 to you doesn't mean there aren't 150 others out there."

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Can't they come up with some better names than the starting lineup of the fucking Dallas Cowboys?